N = New listing appearing on list for first timeR = Item returning to the list after having been off for 1 or more weeks

Commentary:

Topping the chart this week is the Kindle edition of the sixth Dork Diaries installment. It had previously bounced around the chart at the beginning of the year when it was a pre-order.

The top new item is the twenty-fourth issue of Injustice: Gods Among Us in the #2 position. The only other debuts are down near the bottom of the chart: the second volume of Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin and the first collection of the Marvel NOW Deadpool.

Saga collections continue to do very well. The pre-order for the second volume is at #3, and the first volume moves up into the top ten.

Injustice Watch: While the newest issue has a very high debut, only three issues make the chart this week, down two from last week.

Dead Watch: FourWalking Dead collections are on the chart this week, down one from last week. The new collection just doesn't seem to have the ummph to move up into the top slot.

Diary Watch: The Diary of a Wimpy Kid and Dork Diaries franchises between them take up twenty-one of the slots on the chart this week, up five from last week. They are buoyed by the reappearance on the chart of several early volumes of Wimpy Kid hardcovers.

Kindle Watch: Eighteen of the chart positions this week are taken up by
Kindle editions, the same as last week.

N = New listing appearing on list for first timeR = Item returning to the list after having been off for 1 or more weeks

Commentary:

As was expected, the passing of the Father's Day holiday resulted in Jeffrey Brown's Vader's Little Princess dropping out of the top spot. Not as expected is that is isn't the new Walking Dead trade in the #1 position, but rather the first issue of the New 52 Superman comic on the Kindle, no doubt buoyed by the newsletter sign-up promotion.

Also surprising is the fact that in the wake of Man of Steel's blockbuster opening weekend at the cineplex, Superman #1 is the only Superman title in the top 50. To be fair, earlier in the week there was some bubbling up of various Superman titles (Superman: Red Son, All-Star Superman, and Superman: Birthright) in the bottom portion of the list, but now it is just one week out from the opening and interest has already waned. That has to be disappointing to the folks at DCE's comics division. Batman, whose movie came out last year, does better this week than Superman.

No surprise however is that the latest issue of Injustice is once again the top debut of the week. Also debuting area new Big Nate collection on the Kindle, and the Kindle edition of the new Walking Dead collection.

Marvel's Pacific Rim OGN tie-in, which debuted high two weeks ago bu tthen fell off the chart last week, is back at a very respectable #13 position three weeks away from the movie's release. If interest holds up, this is primed to be Marvel's best foray into the bookstore market in quite a while.

Injustice Watch: Five issues make the chart this week, the same as last week.

Dead Watch: FiveWalking Dead collections on the chart this week, up one from last week, though the two Compendia drop out of the top 10.

Diary Watch: The Diary of a Wimpy Kid and Dork Diaries franchises between them take up sixteen of the slots on the chart this week, down one from last week.

Kindle Watch: Eighteen of the chart positions this week are taken up by
Kindle editions, up two from last week.

N = New listing appearing on list for first timeR = Item returning to the list after having been off for 1 or more weeks

Commentary:

Jeffrey Brown continues to have the top two slots this week with his Star Wars-themed
Darth Vader-as-a-parent books. Father's Day is this weekend, and the drop off in gift buying may open the door to the new Walking Dead collection when it is released next week...

You may be wondering what the first issue of the New 52 version of Superman is doing on the chart in the #3 position. It turns out that Amazon is offering this as a free incentive for people who sign up for their Amazon Delivers Comics Newsletter. But since that promotion is via an emailed code, the comic itself still lists as 99¢ and thus shows up on the sales chart...

The only other Superman-related comic on the chart remains Superman: Red Son. With the Man of Steel movie releasing today, it would seem that so far there isn't much interest bleeding over into Kal-El's comic adventures. At least so far—last year there was a brief interest in Thanos-related comics after the release of the Avengers, but that was an anomaly; usually interest in related comics goes down after a super-hero movie's release.

Injustice Watch: The latest digital issue of Injustice: Gods Among Us debuts in the #5 position this week. Five issues make the chart this week, the same as last week.

The other debuts this week are two comic adaptations of novels: the second Game of Thrones volume (at #17), and the first Percy Jackson book, The Lightning Thief (at #50).

All of last week's non-Injustice debuts drop off the chart entirely this week...

Dead Watch: Only four Walking Dead collections on the chart this week, the same as last week, though three of those are in the top 10.

Diary Watch: The Diary of a Wimpy Kid and Dork Diaries franchises between them take up seventeen of the slots on the chart this week, same as last week.

Kindle Watch: Sixteen of the chart positions this week are taken up by
Kindle editions, down two from last week.

N = New listing appearing on list for first timeR = Item returning to the list after having been off for 1 or more weeks

Commentary:

Jeffrey Brown continues to have the top two slots this week with his Star Wars-themed
Darth Vader-as-a-parent books. Father's Day is just one week
away, andit remains to be seen if next week lovable Darth Vader will be able to withstand the release of the new Walking Dead collection...

Injustice Watch: Once again the latest digital issue of Injustice: Gods Among Us is the top debut of the week. Five issues make the chart this week, down two from last week.

Also debuting this week, and rather high on the chart (#13), is the prologue OGN to the upcoming film Pacific Rim. Oddly it's produced by Marvel; they seem to do better selling comics based on other people's movies than their own. The only other Marvel comic on the chart is Stephen King's N.—also based on someone else's property. (The Marvel Encyclopedia is produced by DK, not Marvel...)

Other debuts are the Kindle version of Borderland: Origins (a prologue to the video game); and the fifth volume of the manga Attack on Titan.

Just a week out from the release of Man of Steel, and the only Superman book on the chart is the non-related Elseworlds Superman: Red Son.

Dead Watch: Only four Walking Dead collections on the chart this week, the same as last week.

Diary Watch: The Diary of a Wimpy Kid and Dork Diaries franchises between them take up seventeen of the slots on the chart this week, same as last week.

Kindle Watch: Eighteen of the chart positions this week are taken up by
Kindle editions, down three from last week.